Our artistic collaboration is based on a creative exploration of morphological relationships. First, photography provides us with macroscopic scenarios of the 'real' in animate and inanimate nature: minerals, crystallisations, leaves, flow forms and objets trouvés. For the production of these photographs we use our own specially developed dark field macrophoto-graphy equipment.
As a next step we manipulate and compose these images in the computer in multiple layers, using computing as an artistic language and a means of discovery, rather than a production tool. This shows that there is more to an organic structure than what immediately meets the eye. We reveal invisible - but inherent - hidden layers of images from the 'real world'. We search for similarities in different dimensions and compare similar structures by using image processing techniques. Through adding and subtracting pixel values from two or more different images or applying algorithms on those values, we literally discover the unseen virtual beauty. In an additional step the emerging new images are distorted through continuous transformation of the coordinates. This procedure leads us to a step by step linking of overlapping fields of relation and to a morphology of multidimensionali.


Technical Background

HW: Macintosh and SGI
SW: Adobe Photoshop and Softimage (Eddie)

Anna Gabriele Wagner (AT) works in the field of computer graphics and experimental computer animation. Master of Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in New York City (Computer Art). She has a background in architecture and fine arts and was involved in performance art.

Adelhard Roidinger (AT), a renowned jazz artist, also works in the field of experimental photography, Computer graphics and Computer music. In 1982 he founded bis own Computer art studio ACROASIS. He studied architecture, double bass and jazz composition.